If you thought Miami’s political telenovela might take a break after Election Day, think again. The show goes on — and this next act could be the one that finally rewrites the script at City Hall. Commissioner Eileen Higgins came out of Tuesday’s first round not just ahead — but way ahead — in the […]
The American Business Forum seemed more like an audition for him This past week, while millions of Americans faced lost food aid, shuttered programs and threats to their health coverage, downtown Miami staged a spectacle. You know the kind — velvet ropes, orchestral beats, VIP tickets, and a gilded ceremony that screams celebration even when […]
Here we go again. There’s another political tempest brewing in Palmetto Bay — and, once again, it’s Steve Cody and Vice Mayor Mark Merwitzer at the center of it. This week, Merwitzer — who has made a second career out of policing Cody’s social media — issued a press release demanding that the councilman remove […]
The Miami Downtown Development Authority just can’t help itself. The agency that’s supposed to make life better for people who live and work downtown keeps giving away public money to millionaire vanity projects — and this time, they’ve literally thrown ten grand into Biscayne Bay. That’s right. The DDA approved a $10,000 “sponsorship” for the […]
The day after Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins got into the runoff for Miami mayor Tuesday, the race to fill her county District 5 seat really began in earnest. First, Antonio “Tony” Diaz, who withdrew from the special election in Miami’s District 4 last June, filed his intention to run for the seat, which isn’t officially […]
It’s that time again, when Ladra separates the winners from the whiners, the power players from the posers, and the ones still pretending they didn’t lose from the ones already measuring the drapes at City Hall. No, not the candidates, silly. We’re talking about the hangers on. The consultants, activists and/or special interests that also […]
And a golf cart got arrested on Election Day The two incumbents in the Miami Beach commission elections Tuesday, Laura Dominguez and Alex Fernandez, held on to their seats with a firm grip — but not without some of that special Beach-brand political drama we’ve come to expect. Dominguez survived a nasty, personal campaign from […]
Is it our birthday? Did Christmas come early? What did we do to deserve this gift from God? After four decades of drama, lawsuits, late-night stalking and public tirades that made Miami politics look like a telenovela written by Kafka, City Commissioner Joe Carollo, who just placed fourth in the mayoral race Tuesday and missed […]
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner can keep his corner office at City Hall — but he almost lost it. Miami Beach voters re-elected him Tuesday night by a thin margin, giving him about 51% of the vote over Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who came within striking distance at 49%. It was a squeaker at a […]
Miami voters didn’t give anyone the keys to City Hall Tuesday night, but they did serve up a spicy little runoff, as expected, between Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins and former City Manager Emilio González — two candidates who couldn’t be more different, except for the fact that they both promise to end chaos in a […]